The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

190
 Don
Quixote
de
la
Mancha
with
the
stream
of
those
who
regard
it
as
a
matter
of
certainty
that
they
are
not
true."
From
this
last
observation
of
Don
Quixote's,
the
traveler
began
to
have
a
suspicion
that
he
was
some
crazy
being,
and
was
waiting
him
to
confirm
it
by
something
further;
but
before
they
could
turn
to
any
new
subject
Don
Quixote
begged
him
to
tell
him
who
he
was,
since
he
himself
had
rendered
account
of
his
station
and
life.
To
this,
he
in
the
green
gaban
replied
"I,
Sir
Knight
of
the
Mournful
Countenance,
am
a
gentleman
by
birth,
native
of
the
village
where,
please
God,
we
are
going
to
dine
today;
I
am
more
than
fairly
well
off,
and
my
name
is
Don
Diego
de
Miranda.
I
pass
my
life
with
my
wife,
children,
and
friends;
my
pursuits
are
hunting
and
fishing,
but
I
keep
neither
hawks
nor
greyhounds,
nothing
but
a
tame
partridge 47 
or
a
bold
ferret
or
two;
I
have
six
dozen
or
so
of
books,
some
in
our
mother
tongue,
some
Latin,
some
of
them
history,
others
devotional;
those
of
chivalry
have
not
as
yet
crossed
the
threshold
of
my
door;
I
am
more
given
to
reading
the
profane
than
the
devotional,
so
long
as
they
are
books
of
honest
entertainment
that
charm
by
their
style
and
attract
and
interest
by
the
invention
they
display,
though
of
these
there
are
very
few
in
Spain.

Sometimes
I
dine
with
my
neighbors
and
friends,
and
often
invite
them;
my
entertainments
are
neat
and
well
served
without
stint
of
anything.

I
have
no
taste
for
tattle,
nor
do
I
allow
tattling
in
my
presence;
I
pry
not
into
my
neighbors’
lives,
nor
have
I
lynx‐eyes
for
what
others
do.
I
hear
mass
every
day;
I
share
my
substance
with
the
poor,
making
no
display
of
good
works,
lest
I
let
hypocrisy
and
vainglory,
those
enemies
that
subtly
take
possession
of
the
most
watchful
heart,
find
an
entrance
into
mine.
I
strive
to
make
peace
between
those
whom
I
know
to
be
at
variance;
I
am
the
devoted
servant
of
Our
Lady,
and
my
trust
is
ever
in
the
infinite
mercy
of
God
our
Lord."
Sancho
listened
with
the
greatest
attention
to
the
account
of
the
gentleman's
life
and
occupation;
and
thinking
it
a
good
and
a
holy
life,
and
that
he
who
led
it
ought
to
47 
Used
as
a
decoy.